While not one of the big hits of summer, Schmucks just about
met box office expectations, narrowly clearing its $ 69 million budget with a $ 73 M domestic gross.
After Tom Cruise's The Mummy reboot failed to
meet box office expectations, director Alex Kurtzman — along with Fast & Furious producer Chris Morgan — reportedly left the project.
As we all know, Disney has twice recently re-embraced hand - drawn animation on the satisfying and traditional The Princess and the Frog and Winnie the Pooh, two films that nonetheless failed to
meet box office expectations.
Not exact matches
Shawn Levy is not a director who shatters
expectations; he mostly
meets them, sometimes to winning effect (the two Night at the Museum movies) and almost always to
box office success (Date Night, Cheaper by the Dozen).
The Great Wall, a big budget film starring Matt Damon and co-financed by company's film division, Le Vision Pictures, flopped at the U.S.
box office and failed to
meet expectations in China, putting a damper not just on Le Vision Pictures» future film ambitions, but on the broader U.S. / China film co-financing space.